Dear Rebecca, thank you a lot for your explainations ! I've just discovered the sonnets 2 weeks ago, recited or song in french by Norah Krief at the Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, and was amazed. Shakespeare's sonnet are not that famous in France... and I'm really shamed to say that we learn very little of Shakespeare at school!! A shamefull pity. Since I discovered your explainations of the sonnets, I carefully listen to them. You drive me through a wonderfull world and make me understand the hidden beauty of a language I hardly understand. Thank you Rebecca, from France !!! ...And thank you, Shakespeare, talking so well about human feelings...
Thanks Rebecca. Very good. Now about the lark, a european bird which flies pretty much straight up and up, singing all the time until eventually it flies so high that it cannot be seen but can still be heard, presumably right then at Heaven's gate. Ned
THANK YOU this has indeed given me understanding of such i never ever had before .. posted on a group i am a participant in .. of course you can be excused if you lived thru all the adolescent anguish n torment , but have a reasonable understanding of it all now .. thru this lady ..
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Thanks for this explanation! I memorized this for high school some many (many many many) years ago, and while I had a passing familiarity with Shakespeare's penchant for bawdiness, I never thought to apply it to this sonnet. Very interesting - thanks again!
Bootless prayers are those said without ones boots on. Those said in ones pyjammas before bed. These are generally the most earnest ones. All people in those times would have known that prayers in secret are those that God is most likely to listen to since this was the method prescribed by Christ.
I disagree with your summing it up as "I think of you and it makes me happy". I know what you mean by it but I always thought the poem was essentially saying "Being loved by you makes me great" He spends half the poem talking about being a huge loser but in the end would not change his state because as he is, he is loved by this paramour to whom the sommet is directed. Its true that thinking on his love makes him happy but the poem is more about the state of his life.
It stinks that some people can take a beautiful poem, and turn it into something perverted. Thanks for explaining everything though, It'll really help with my homework.
Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Watching your lectures makes me feel: I scorn to change my state with kings
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I have spent my eternity to understand poetry but in vain until I discovered Rebecca Balcarel..Merci Beaucoup.
Awesome!! English is not my native language, you help me understand this poem!!
Dear Rebecca, thank you a lot for your explainations ! I've just discovered the sonnets 2 weeks ago, recited or song in french by Norah Krief at the Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, and was amazed. Shakespeare's sonnet are not that famous in France... and I'm really shamed to say that we learn very little of Shakespeare at school!! A shamefull pity.
Since I discovered your explainations of the sonnets, I carefully listen to them. You drive me through a wonderfull world and make me understand the hidden beauty of a language I hardly understand.
Thank you Rebecca, from France !!!
...And thank you, Shakespeare, talking so well about human feelings...
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I have listened to your explanations of several Shakespeare's Sonnets and I really love them!!! Thank you sooooo much! They are really amazing!!
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You're so welcome!! Glad you are enjoying Shakespeare. He is awesome! From the language to the deep insight into human nature. He's the real deal.
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Thanks Rebecca. Very good. Now about the lark, a european bird which flies pretty much straight up and up, singing all the time until eventually it flies so high that it cannot be seen but can still be heard, presumably right then at Heaven's gate. Ned
That’s the best explanation ever. Amazing
Great explanation. Thank you for your interpretation..
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this has indeed given me understanding of such i never ever had before ..
posted on a group i am a participant in ..
of course
you can be excused if you lived thru all the adolescent anguish n torment , but have a reasonable understanding of it all now .. thru this lady ..
Thanks. I'll be playing your excellent video for my Humanities class tonight!
Cool! Hope they enjoy it!
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You're welcome! Thank you for sharing this with your group. Glad to help!
THANK YOU MAM! i've developed my profound interest on reading Shakespeare. Really artistic how he brought his feelings out!
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I was dumb forgot my account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.
Thank you ,it was a very good explanation.Now I understand this Sonnet better.
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I especially liked your explanation of the syllable counts with trouble and heaven, thank you :)
Wonderful! I love how you interpreted the sonnet verse by verse. Have you done more of these?
Thank you so much, this is a very enlightening explanation.
Thanks for your video ..even is it's uploaded 6 years ago it was really helpful for my exam coming tomorrow ...haply I think on thee
You explained this perfectly! It really helped me! Thank you so much!
So glad it helped you! You are very welcome. :-)
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Awesome video, thank you!
Thank you! It helps a lot for me!
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Thanks for this explanation! I memorized this for high school some many (many many many) years ago, and while I had a passing familiarity with Shakespeare's penchant for bawdiness, I never thought to apply it to this sonnet. Very interesting - thanks again!
One of the greatest literary minds in history wished that he had another mans talent and wit. Who was that man?
I love that even Shakespeare coveted and felt jealousy towards anothers talent
I wish we could know who he envied
Bootless prayers are those said without ones boots on. Those said in ones pyjammas before bed. These are generally the most earnest ones. All people in those times would have known that prayers in secret are those that God is most likely to listen to since this was the method prescribed by Christ.
This helped me alot, thank you.
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I disagree with your summing it up as "I think of you and it makes me happy". I know what you mean by it but I always thought the poem was essentially saying "Being loved by you makes me great"
He spends half the poem talking about being a huge loser but in the end would not change his state because as he is, he is loved by this paramour to whom the sommet is directed.
Its true that thinking on his love makes him happy but the poem is more about the state of his life.
It stinks that some people can take a beautiful poem, and turn it into something perverted. Thanks for explaining everything though, It'll really help with my homework.
Homework 5 years ago🤣🤣 what's up now
What's perverted about sex?
Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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please explain in hindi
Who needs this explicAtion of the obvious? Readers. Who cannot read!
Thank you